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Milkcow Magazine, 1940-50′s Vintage Lifestyle

While working recently at the Americana show at the Newark showground i purchased some copies of Milkcow magazine from a vintage clothing retailer.

I was impressed by its smart design format, the articles and how it showed that this scene is growing in the UK. There are some very stylish vendors of all things vintage in the magazine including clothes, jewellery, cars, bikes, music weekenders and tattoos. Burlesque is quite important in this scene with lots of pics of stylish femmes and the club nights springing up across the UK. We worked with the Scantily Clad burlesque girls at Glastonbury in 2009 when providing tents to the Rabbit Hole. We have noticed how popular our vintage army tents have been over the last few years, with 40′s theme events been a popular choice. See our gallery for pics of a 200 people event last summer.

Check out the Milkcow website, or even better the magazine, for some interesting articles on the music, clothes and fab retailers important to this vintage scene. With the Vintage Festival about to launch this summer it seems the time is ripe for nostalgia, fashion and fun mixing together at events. While wandering around Secret Garden last week there were certainly lots of fancy dress outfits featuring vintage clothes as well as retailers like PrettyRubbish selling clothing to meet this demand.

Vintage clothing trading area at Secret Garden

If you fancy hearing some of the music of the scene check out Mark Lamar’s Rock’n Roll show when it airs in Radio 2 or try Rockabilly Radio for non-stop 40′s/50′s tunes

Trousers made from recycled British army tents

Over The Moon Tents, and many of our clients, love the smell and feel of traditional canvas. Now you can combine that love of canvas with fashion and recycling and grab yourself a pair of trousers made of army tent canvas. Genius.

Canvas Army Tent Trousers

http://www.stabo.co.uk/Shop/mens/trouser.htm

Canvas Adventures in the George Lucas soundstage

It was a thrilling day of tent erecting in Elstree today. The OTM crew got to visit the famous studio’s and the sound stage that was home to the Star Wars films. Elstree is also home to the “Big Brother” house and “Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire”.

The young Padowan's are in awe at being at the home of Star Wars

We were on site to erect a military marquee for a forthcoming supermarket commercial. We had to adapt to working with a hard surface and we utilised 2500ltrs of water, giving us 2.5tons of anchorage in the absence of ground stakes. The crew had a fun time and enjoyed being part of the creative scene at a famous studio.